But you get the point I was trying to make? A more extreme example is you don’t think through the possibility that turning on your bathroom tap might cause a negative singularity (due to it causing a unusual mixture of bacteria that have sex and form a self-aware gene network capable of creating novel regulatory pathways and recursive self improvement).
That possibility doesn’t cross your mind, and probably shouldn’t when making decisions about turning on taps. You X that turning on your tap won’t cause a singularity. I want a word for X. Believe seems to be tainted.
“I’m confident” seems a good antonym of “I worry”. I’m confident that turning on the tap is safe for humanity. I have reasonable expectations of getting water when I turn on the tap (though these are sometimes violated).
The tap example is reminiscent of the blue tentacle line in Technical Explanation. Riffing on that, beliefs perhaps correspond to scenarios you construct without really thinking about it, plausible extrapolations from actual knowledge.
But you get the point I was trying to make? A more extreme example is you don’t think through the possibility that turning on your bathroom tap might cause a negative singularity (due to it causing a unusual mixture of bacteria that have sex and form a self-aware gene network capable of creating novel regulatory pathways and recursive self improvement).
That possibility doesn’t cross your mind, and probably shouldn’t when making decisions about turning on taps. You X that turning on your tap won’t cause a singularity. I want a word for X. Believe seems to be tainted.
Yes, I think I get your point.
“I’m confident” seems a good antonym of “I worry”. I’m confident that turning on the tap is safe for humanity. I have reasonable expectations of getting water when I turn on the tap (though these are sometimes violated).
The tap example is reminiscent of the blue tentacle line in Technical Explanation. Riffing on that, beliefs perhaps correspond to scenarios you construct without really thinking about it, plausible extrapolations from actual knowledge.